room for paper 04 - Kim Smith: an autobiography in collage

Kim Smith is a prominent figure in San Francisco's Hunters Point Shipyard group of artists. For the fourth run in the room for paper we are showing the entire series of original paper and text collages that make up her recently released book, Where Quirky Meets Menacing: an autobiography in colla... Read more

Kim Smith is a prominent figure in San Francisco’s Hunters Point Shipyard group of artists. For the fourth run in the room for paper we are showing the entire series of original paper and text collages that make up her recently released book, Where Quirky Meets Menacing: an autobiography in collage. Through a subjective mix of disembodied nostalgia and constructivist imagery overlaid on old book pages, along with text punctuated with a morse code-like set of dashes, a parody of the censoring effect of memory, Smith recounts her early experiences growing up in Germany. She manages a variation on the graphic novel, at once humorous, poignant and revealing. Kim Smith will be on hand at the reception for a book signing.